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The Please Don’t Divorce Us Campaign
By: webb on: Jan 3,2009 In: 1,000 words, as a three-dollar-bill, family, right nowHave you contributed?
These victories add up
By: webb on: Dec 24,2008 In: as a three-dollar-billThe Human Rights Campaign today hailed the passage of a law that protects partners who inherit retirement savings. The Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (WRERA), signed by President Bush today, contains technical corrections to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA). PPA made it possible for employers to allow any nonspouse beneficiary [...]
Resource Alert: Marriage Equality Wiki
By: webb on: Dec 23,2008 In: as a three-dollar-billThe Marriage Equality Wiki provides a nice range of resources relating — and this won’t surprise you, oh sharp-eyed one — to marriage equality. From Rick Warren-tagged stories on Daily Kos to lists of legal resources, you can find a lot to gnaw on, and share with that stodgy uncle over the holiday table. Even [...]
New Jersey says civil unions are NOT equal
By: webb on: Dec 21,2008 In: as a three-dollar-bill, right now, sometimes linksAccording to an article in NJ.com: New Jersey should enact a law allowing gay marriage and waste no time passing it because the state’s civil unions law fails to adequately protect same-sex couples, a report to be released today concludes. The final report of the New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission says it gathered ‘overwhelming [...]
Polly, over at Lesbian Dad, is doing some ambitious fundraising to be sure that people who love each other can legally marry. Vote No On Prop 8, tell three people to vote no on Prop 8, and give $5. And then do it all (okay, maybe not the voting) again tomorrow.
It’s about community
By: webb on: Oct 29,2008 In: 1,000 words, as a three-dollar-bill, family, right nowThe kind of community that you have and the kind of community that you want to have. SouthernGirl (aka Spawnmama) and I got married — officially and legally married — on Saturday, Oct 18. People people from all parts of our lives celebrated with us. And we did not get married because of benefits or [...]
FBI: Hate crime down in 2007 but anti-gay crime up
By: webb on: Oct 27,2008 In: as a three-dollar-billFBI: Hate crime down in 2007 but anti-gay crime up The FBI reported more than 7,600 hate crimes incidents in 2007, down about 1 percent from the previous year. The decline was driven by decreases in the two largest categories of hate crimes – crimes against race and religion. But incidents linked to prejudice against [...]
Why?
"He stopped commenting on this oddness of hers. She said the news clippings she sent to friends were a perfectly reasonable way to correspond. There were a thousand things to clip and they all said something about the way she felt. He watched her read and cut. She wore half-glasses and worked the scissors grimly. She believed these were personal forms of expression. She believed no message she could send a friend was more intimate and telling than a story in the paper about a violent act, a crazed man, a bombed Negro home, a Buddhist monk who sets himself on fire. Because these are the things that tell us how we live." -Don Dellilo, Libra
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